Warding Breath?

They gave him Warding Breath because they want to see Ike die.

B!Ike had Steady Breath, and look at how many people killed him to give it to Dragon Emblem, or other units?

Now, ANOTHER IKE comes with ANOTHER BREATH skill. Really, like people wouldn't see what they're trying to do.

I dunno if they like Ike so much that they keep giving him these fodder skills, or if they dislike him so much that they keep giving them to him so people can kill him off for other units.

My guess is that Vanguard Ike was an attempt to become a pseudo-mixed tank? He can tank most melee Red and Green units, as well as some magic. He won't be able to tank Brave Lyn despite having Distant Counter on his Ragnell (shame, I was expecting an added effect on that as the Hero of the Blue Flame like Atk+3 or Def+3).

But anyway, we now have two accessible Breath skills now. We should be happy to see that it allows Nowi to tank magical hits better with Warding Breath. But... I feel that Steady Breath is still a superior option due to how common melee units are.

Warding Stance should be given to units that have Distant Counter weapons, and most of them have poor Res to begin with, barring Dorcas whom he has somewhat decent Res to work with, and Fjorm for those who'd like to run Glacies on her.

Fierce/Steady Breath makes more sense on Vanguard Ike in my opinion as Warding Breath does mitigate his weakness to magic just a little bit, but fails to stop Reinhardt.

Okay, but what with warding breath and Green Azura buffs plus marriage, ally support, and DD, you could bring his res up by 17 points. You could also increase this with drive res, which green Azura comes with and make it 20, while having his special cool down accelerate. Then he would have 41 res.

Ike is so dead to Nekura, Micaiah, or Sanaki, any desired unit of mine with good Res lol